On Fri, Nov 1, 2019, at 5:58 PM, Tim Jackson wrote: > I realise this is not exactly news, but when replacing Ask Fedora, was there > a > reason to break all the links on the entire web to existing solutions, rather > than just putting the new system on a different domain? Or, failing that, at > least adding (conditional) redirects and/or links to the "old" site? > > It seems like finally as Fedora was building up a body of useful "ask"-type > content and get traction on search engines (= searching for things not only > leading to results about Ubuntu), we wiped the slate clean. > > As it is now, whenever I (as a Fedora user) search for something, I still > frequently end up at a dead end on a 404 page on ask.fedoraproject.org. There > isn't even a *link* to the corresponding page on askbot.fedoraproject.org - > surely that, at least, is something we could do? (yes, I realise one just has > to add "bot" to the hostname, but that's not the point - not everyone will > either realise that, or bother, and it's trivial to do when generating the > error page) >
When I asked, the answer was that it costs money to do custom redirects, and the old site is going away "soon" so it would be overcome by events sooner or later. V/r, James Cassell _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
